PIN OAK, TEXAS. Pin Oak is a small rural community located in eastern Milam County four miles northwest of Gause on Farm Road 2095. The school at Pin Oak, which had thirty-two students in the 1930s, was consolidated with the Milano Independent School District in 1949; the building was moved and converted into a residence. A cemetery marked the community on county highway maps in 1988. No population estimates for Pin Oak were available.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lelia M. Batte, History of Milam County, Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1956). Milam County Heritage Preservation Society, Matchless Milam: History of Milam County (Dallas: Taylor, 1984).
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